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[Identification of item], in the Jo Anne Earp Papers #40484, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from Health Sciences Library in September 2017 (RT 20170919.2) and in June 2019 (RT 20190613.1).

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Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, October 2017

Updated for addition, November 2017

Updated for addition by Jennifer Coggins and Laura Smith, August 2019

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African American women--North Carolina.
• Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis.
• Breast--Cancer--Prevention.
• Earp, Jo Anne L., 1943-
• Public health--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Jo Anne Earp is a medical sociologist and faculty member in the Department of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She joined the faculty in 1974 and served as chair for over 13 years.

Faculty papers, 1980-2014, include materials related to the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Project, a twelve year program to close the racial gap in breast cancer screening in rural counties; numerous questionnaires developed by Dr. Earp; and materials related to Dr. Earp's course on patient advocacy, the first and one of only of its kind.

For more information on the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, click here.

• Audio cassette (C-40484/1)
• Oversize paper folders (OPF-40484/1-2)
• Slides (P-40484/1-6)
• Videotapes (VT-40484/1-3)
• Digital folders (DF-40484/1-8)